a good girl's guide to classics

The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

Jonathan Wordsworth • 2006

The Beast Within

Emile Zola • 2008

Nana / Emile Zola

Émile Zola • 1995

The Wings of the Dove

Henry James • 2008

The Man In The Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas • 2014

The Book of Tea

Okakura Kakuzo • 2020

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert • 2002

The Red and the Black

Stendhal • 2004

The Village of Stepanchikovo And its Inhabitants: from the Notes of an Unknown

Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2007

War And Peace

Leo Tolstoy • 2009

Demons (Penguin Classics)

Fyodor Dostoevsky • 2008

The Brothers Karamazov A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue

Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2003

Madonna in a Fur Coat - Echo of Love Through the Ages

Sabahattin Ali • 2024

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen • 1992

Ceremony (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Leslie Marmon Silko • 2006

Selected Writings of Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas • 1999

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf • 1989

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll • 2019

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2004

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy • 2021

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee • 2002

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde • 1990

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka • 2009

1984

George Orwell • 1950

<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Paradise Lost

John Milton • 2003

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • 2015

Villette

Charlotte Brontë • 2008

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 2001

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte • 2002

<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.

Lolita

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov • 1989

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Anna Karenina

graf Leo Tolstoy • 1995

Emma by Jane Austen

Jane Austen • 2021

Persuation

Jane Austen • 2018

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez • 2006

The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë • 2015

"The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall" from Anne Brontë. British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family (1820-1849).

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë • 2003

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

Jane Austen • 1813